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Shelly Duvall achieves a remarkable resemblance to the original Olive. Tall and awkward, her loose outfit and clodhoppers emphasize her rubber-legged shapelessness; the wishy-washy, quavering voice ring true. The other characters are instantly recognizable--but that's it. Comic-strip depth does not suffice for a full-length movie. Swee'pea (Altman's grandchild, incidentally) is an exception--a uniquely expressive and, of course, cute baby...
...Riverside Church for 19 years and was invited to play virtually all the world's great church organs, but he was best known for his more than 30 recordings and his freewheeling concert appearances, at which he favored iridescent jack ets, rhinestone-studded shoes and a full-length, crimson-lined cape. After he began wooing a new generation of listeners in the 1970s by touring the country with a rock-style light show and a 2,700-watt electronic amplification system, he told an interviewer: "My more conservative colleagues regard me as an infidel. They...
...British Biographer Monica Furlong, 50, offers the first full-length assessment of the hermit celebrity, a provocative and thoughtful examination of a life that she judges to be "victorious...
...world who can arrange this event," boasted San Diego Opera Director Tito Capobianco. Indeed, Capobianco's Die Fledermaus was an operatic double play: the first time Queen Coloraturas Beverly Sills, 51, and Joan Sutherland, 53, have appeared onstage together, and the last time Sills will appear in a full-length opera. Of course, few would have considered asking two divas to, Mozart forbid, share the same spotlight. Says Sills: "We still don't know if Tito asked Joan first and told her I had said yes, or asked me first and told me she had said...
...works as Flowering Judas, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the Texas-born Porter reigned in the 1930s and '40s as the undisputed queen of the short story. But popular and financial success did not come until the publication in 1962 of her only full-length novel, Ship of Fools, which received mixed reviews but became an international bestseller and served as the basis of a star-heavy film. In 1966, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for fiction. "I have nothing to complain...